Box or holder for sticking-plaster.



No. 885,048. PATENTED APR. 21, 1908.

( 0. HOFFMANN-PINTHER.

BOX OR'HOLDER F08 STIGKING PLASTER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 3, 1906.

" UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE.

' CURT HOFFMANN-PINTHER, OF HAMELN-ON-THE-WESER, GERMANY.

BOX 03 HOLDER FOR STIGKING-PLASTER.

Specification of Letters-Patent.

Patented April 21, 1908.

' Application filed August 3, 1906. Serial No. 32,9,010.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Cum HoFFMANN-Pm- THER, a subject of the German Em eror, re-

siding at Hameln-on-the-Weser, in ermany,

have; invented a certain new and useful Box or Holder for-Sticking-Plaster, of which the following is a specification.

fscissors. The object of the invention is an improved I construction enablin This invention relates to a box suitable for containing rolled strips or bands of material, for-example a roll of sticking-plaster, and having a slot throughwhich the end of the strip projects so that a portion of desired length may be severed from the strip without opening the box and without usinga separate instrument such as a knife or pair of the box to be opened and. closed without disturbing the location of the 'strlp, forexample, to ascertain the contents ofthe box. l

' The invention is illustrated in'the annexed drawing, in which I y Figure 1 is a vertical section and Fig. 2 .a horizontal section of the box provided with its ring or belt.

The wall a, of the box a is provided with a' slot b for the passage of the strip a. The lid f is provided with a flange f 1 engaging over the upper edge of the wall a ,in the known manner. The wall a and the flange f of the lid f are surrounded by a ring or belt g disconnected from both lid and box'and rotatable between the horizontal'flan es f a? of the lid ox' respectively. The belt 9 also provided with a slot 1) for and of the bottom of the tically impossible.

the passage of the strip d. The said belt not only serves to cover the 'oint between the edge of the lid f and the wa of the box a, but can also be rotated 'so as to cover the slot b, so that the entrance'of dust is rendered prac- To allow of severing the portion of the strip d drawn through the slot b as shown in Fig. 2, a knife h is fixed to the belt g adjacent the slot 1). When the .belt' g has been slightly rotated, as shown in Fig. 4, the strip d is pulled against the knife h and the exa portion ofthe strip is thus detached.

The combination'with'a, box: at having a" slot 1) in the wall (1, thereof, and a lid f the flange f of which enga es over the edgemf wall a, and an annular elt surrounding the a wall a) and flange f and -rotatable thereon, said belt havin a slot b adapted to be brought into an out of coincidence with the slot 1), together with a knife on said belt adjacent the slot 1), for the purpose set forth.

In witness whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

CURT HOFFMANN-PINTHER. Witnessesi v P HENRY J FU'LLER,

ANNA DIPPEL. 

